A British sculptor has been chosen to make “an artistic intervention” to a divisive statue of the Belgian king whose brutal colonisation of the Congo inspired Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.

That deeply grieving widower, young King Leopold III, had his private secretary call correspondents to the Royal Palace last week, made a denial as rare as Queen Mary’s one & only (TIME ...

The international response to the cruel treatment of Africans forced King Leopold II to make the Congo Free State a colony of Belgium. It was then known as the Belgian Congo, until it gained its ...

King Leopold II governed the vast country -- a swathe of central Africa the size of continental western Europe -- as his personal property between 1885 and 1908, before it became a Belgian colony.

Inside the world's 'most expensive mansion' on sale for £306million on the French Riviera and once home to a king ...

Last Wednesday (May 18th) saw another repeat of the BBC documentary White King, Red Rubber, Black Death, on the Belgian TV channel Canvas.

While the Belgian royal family doesn't live in the ... The building dates back to King Leopold II and contains many impressive reception rooms; alongside the opulent Throne Room, where speeches ...